Combined button and cuff-holder



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0. H. LOWELL. COMBINED BUTTON AND CUFF HOLDER.

No. 298,993. Patented May 20. 1884.

UNITE arnr CHARLES H. LOW'ELL, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,993, dated May 20, 1884.

Application filed March 27, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES H. LOWELL, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Combined Button and Guff- Holder, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide an improved device adapted to secure a detachable cuff to the wristband of a shirt, and also to serve as a button for said wristband.

To this endthe invention consists in a spring clip or holder adapted to grasp a cuff, and a button connected to one end of the clip, and having a fiat shank arranged crosswise of the length of the plate, as I will now proceed to describe.

Of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my improved button and cuff holder. Fig. 2 represents and edge View, and Fig. 3 a bottom view, of the same.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In the drawings, arepresents a cuff-holding clip, composed of a plate or strip of metal bent to form 'two arms, 2 3, which normally bear against each other with a yielding pressure at a point near their outer ends, as shown in Fig. 2, and are adapted to separate to permitthe insertion of a cuff between them, the presence of the arms being sufiicient to enable them to firmly grasp or hold the cuff. The outer ends of the arms 2 3 are oppositely curved, as shown, to facilitate the insertion of a cuff between the meeting-points of the arms.

To the under side of the arm 2 is rigidly attached, in any suitable-manner, a buttonor stud, 0, having a head soldered to the arm 2, as shown in Fig. 2; or the shank or post of the stud may be secured directly to or formed on the arm 2, the latter serving as ahead.

The foot of the button may be separable from the shank, as in many of the cuff-buttons now in use, or may be pivoted to the shank, so as to turn edgewise when being passed through a button-hole, or may be providedwith aslot,

s, at one side, as shown in the drawings, so that it may be inserted into button-holes by a rotary or screw-like motion.

The device as a whole constitutes a very simple and convenient holder both for the cuff and the ends of the wristband.

The post p of the button is flat, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and is placed crosswise of the length of the arm 2, to which it is attached. This form and arrangement prevent it from turning in the button-hole, and thus prevent the clip from turning.

I am aware that a combined cuff-ho1der and sleevebutton consisting of a U shaped spring attached at one end to the shank of a sleevebutton is not new, and I do not claim, therefore, such invention.

I claim The combined sleeve-button and cuff-holder herein described, composed of the spring-clip having two arms adapted to grasp a cuff, and the button having a flat shank attached to said plate and extending crosswise thereof, whereby the shank and clip are prevented from turning when the shank is in place in the sleeve button-holes, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 25th day of March, 1884.

CHARLES H. LOWELL.- 

